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"A few friends and I have noticed these around Auckland - looks like someone is targeting Piet Ubels," writes a reader. Maybe it is

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Feed the vine right and tasty fruit will follow According to the Times, it is not just the flavours of black truffle, ripe blueberry

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Peacemaker? Meth cook? Prolific urine producer? ... Oh, a DIY outlet.

"This car was dangerously/stupidly packed and a danger to all motorists with a load ready to fly off," writes Peter Henderson.

What is the most embarrassing thing a parent has ever done?

In this image there are three No Entry signs, an arrow on the road pointing the other way, road cones and barriers in place to prevent entry.

"Our new kitten flew on Air NZ recently," writes Sally Hughes of Kohimarama.

"I would be angry too if I'd just been made into a pie!" writes Nicola.

Sydney's Elanora Heights Public School has banned clapping during student assemblies in an effort to help pupils with noise anxieties.

I'm pretty sure they think it says SHORT BLACK, but it doesn't read that way at first glance.

Emotive words to add to your lexicon A list of words that explain the things we feel, but can't explain • Sonder - The realisation

The dog parking in Switzerland was amusing but our dogs in Tauranga know how to park with style and comfort.

I've been sitting on this photo for a wee while. It was taken one morning during one of my early bike rides.

A plane causes this rip in the clouds, snapped in Epsom across the road from Alexandra Park.

"In Switzerland they have special designated dog parking spaces," writes a reader.

Chuck Cello needs a visa to travel A musician has said she was prevented from travelling with her cello on a British Airways flight

Was hauled in front of the headmistress and told I must wear stockings. Fair enough you say but this was Australia 30C heat and I was a teacher.

In the 1940s, American high school girls used hair ribbons to indicate if they were coupled up, looking or indifferent.

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I grabbed it with my chopsticks and started to eat it. It was a hot hand towel, though, and my brother burst into a very loud non-stop laughter.

Convinced that smartphones are ruining pub socialising, the owner of a newly-opened bar in Brighton, England has disabled cellphone reception.

Indispensable: Clean Dreams, a kitchen sponge holder.

You might think Canadian Olympic swimmer Santo Condorelli is a bit surly, but his giving the middle finger to his dad is just a getting-psyched ritual.